Source order
We prefer current municipal, provincial and federal material over contractor blogs or copied summaries. A dedicated topic page is labelled differently from a general municipal route.
No borrowed numbers
If a dedicated local source has not been verified, the city page does not invent a height, deadline, setback or unit entitlement. It links the official route and explains what to verify.
Local pages are not interchangeable
Where official sources provide a local rule, the page summarizes that rule. Where they do not, the page stays narrower rather than filling space with a nearby city’s rule.
Current staged coverage: 169 city guides
As of October 11, 2026, this not-yet-deployed website build contains 169 city-guide pages. Of those, 167 are intended for search indexing. Two are deliberately excluded: Colwood, B.C., pending clarification of a relevant zoning amendment’s adoption or effective date, and a North Vancouver duplicate route that points to the City of North Vancouver guide. These are directory and indexing counts, not counts of fully verified legal entitlements or approvals.
Coverage means we provide a city-level starting point with links or explanations of relevant official material. It does not mean that a complete current zoning bylaw, all amendment schedules, mapped exceptions or the zoning of every individual property has been independently verified for that city.
Audit and expansion work after September 20
The September 20 reconciliation covered the then-existing 117-city set. On October 7, two 25-city expansion batches added 50 guides. Subsequent city additions and directory reconciliation brought the staged total to 169. Later work included official-source research, selected enacted-bylaw and adoption checks, editorial corrections, unresolved-claim holds, and technical tests for links, indexing and page structure.
Different checks answer different questions. A technical or editorial pass shows that a page met that review’s stated requirements. Selected municipal-source checks support only the specific points and source dates examined. Neither result means every city was reverified from its complete enacted law after expansion, nor that a particular parcel is entitled to add a dwelling.
What source-checked guidance does and does not confirm
Where a city guide describes an official-source check, that check may cover a municipal information page, an adopted bylaw or amendment, or a specific housing rule. Some older links were corroborated through official search evidence when direct access was unavailable. In other cases, zoning maps, later amendments, local overlays, servicing or legal effective dates remain unresolved. We retain conditional language or flag a property-specific check when the available evidence cannot support a stronger conclusion.
A municipal webpage, a province-wide housing framework or a city-level maximum-unit figure does not by itself confirm that the same housing form is permitted on a particular lot. Source-checked city guidance is not fully confirmed property-level zoning.
How to verify an individual property
Before planning or applying, check the municipality’s current enacted zoning bylaw and amendments, the zoning and overlay maps for the exact parcel, lot-specific dimensions and restrictions, parking and servicing rules, and permit requirements. Ask the municipality to confirm disputed or changing provisions. The site’s directory and property checker are research and screening aids, not legal advice, a zoning certificate or a permit decision.
Review dates and continuing changes
Our September 18, 2026 external-source check and September 20, 2026 117-city rule reconciliation remain historical snapshots. Subsequent October research and audit batches have their own scope and review dates. A directory expansion date is not a fresh legal-verification date for every city. Municipal zoning, fees and permit procedures can change; confirm the currently effective local rules before making a property decision.
Historical: September 20 review of 117 cities
On September 20, 2026, the city set was rechecked as a decision problem rather than a generic content audit: internal additional unit, detached unit, duplex, triplex, fourplex, maximum-unit logic, parking, servicing and property-specific branches. Where a current enacted rule could not safely establish a citywide result, the site now says Property-specific instead of converting a grant program, housing commitment, accessory-building rule or neighbouring-city rule into a legal entitlement.
Historical: September 18 source integrity check
On September 18, 2026, all 128 unique current government destinations were checked, along with all 129 original URLs represented in the prior audit CSV. Most current sources were inspected directly. Eighteen exact official destinations required official search/index corroboration because the direct client received a denial, rate limit or protection/compatibility shell. Those are recorded as corroborated—not as direct content validation.